[ltp] Do I actually have a 1920x1200 screen or not?
Benjamin Thompson
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:59:12 -0500
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When I ordered my T61p, and booted to Vista, 1680 appeared to be the max
resolution. I was not aware the monitors came in higher-res models,
otherwise I would have bought one of those.
On 10/19/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> G'day. I am currently trying to work out for certain if I have a
> 1920x1200 screen in my laptop or not -- in all seriousness.
>
> I have a Thinkpad T61p, 6460-74M, which /should/ have a 1920x1200
> display in it. At least, I expected it to when I paid for it.
>
> It has an nVidia Quadro FX 570M card in, and since the default 'nv'
> driver gives only a black screen I am using the binary driver 100.14.19
>
> X is working reasonably nicely, but will not do anything larger that
> 1680x1050 -- and the nVidia settings widget claims that in the native
> panel resolution.[1]
>
>
> Running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' gives me a list of modes that includes
> 1920x1200 from the console, though, as does the specs on the Lenovo
> support site when I tapped in my machine type and model numbers.
>
> lspci also claims 256MB of memory is attached to the video card; as far
> as I know only the 1920 models had 256MB of video ram...
>
>
> Finally, running at 1680x1050 doesn't have any obvious signs of
> distortion or blurring from the image being rescaled to the panel
> resolution.
>
>
> So, is there any specific way I can verify the native resolution?
>
> (Sadly I got rid of both Windows and the recovery partition before I
> found that I had this issue, so that isn't an easy option to verify the
> hardware.)
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> Dammit. I should have booted Windows once just to be sure.
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] It also claims I have 512MB of video RAM, twice what Lenovo list,
> so I take both of these claims with a grain of salt.
>
> --
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> Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne Web: http://www.cyber.com.au
> Cybersource: Australia's Leading Linux and Open Source Solutions Company
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When I ordered my T61p, and booted to Vista, 1680 appeared to be the max resolution. I was not aware the monitors came in higher-res models, otherwise I would have bought one of those.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Pittman</b> <<a href="mailto:daniel@rimspace.net">daniel@rimspace.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
G'day. I am currently trying to work out for certain if I have a<br>1920x1200 screen in my laptop or not -- in all seriousness.<br><br>I have a Thinkpad T61p, 6460-74M, which /should/ have a 1920x1200<br>display in it. At least, I expected it to when I paid for it.
<br><br>It has an nVidia Quadro FX 570M card in, and since the default 'nv'<br>driver gives only a black screen I am using the binary driver 100.14.19<br><br>X is working reasonably nicely, but will not do anything larger that
<br>1680x1050 -- and the nVidia settings widget claims that in the native<br>panel resolution.[1]<br><br><br>Running 'hwinfo --framebuffer' gives me a list of modes that includes<br>1920x1200 from the console, though, as does the specs on the Lenovo
<br>support site when I tapped in my machine type and model numbers.<br><br>lspci also claims 256MB of memory is attached to the video card; as far<br>as I know only the 1920 models had 256MB of video ram...<br><br><br>Finally, running at 1680x1050 doesn't have any obvious signs of
<br>distortion or blurring from the image being rescaled to the panel<br>resolution.<br><br><br>So, is there any specific way I can verify the native resolution?<br><br>(Sadly I got rid of both Windows and the recovery partition before I
<br> found that I had this issue, so that isn't an easy option to verify the<br> hardware.)<br><br>Regards,<br> Daniel<br><br>Dammit. I should have booted Windows once just to be sure.<br><br>Footnotes:<br>[1] It also claims I have 512MB of video RAM, twice what Lenovo list,
<br> so I take both of these claims with a grain of salt.<br><br>--<br>Daniel Pittman <<a href="mailto:daniel@cybersource.com.au">daniel@cybersource.com.au</a>> Phone: 03 9621 2377<br>Level 4, 10 Queen St, Melbourne Web:
<a href="http://www.cyber.com.au">http://www.cyber.com.au</a><br>Cybersource: Australia's Leading Linux and Open Source Solutions Company<br><br>--<br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br><a href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Top of Center - <a href="http://www.topofcenter.com">http://www.topofcenter.com</a><br>Libertarian news and views podcast brought to you Mondays at 8pm EST by
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